Executive Branch
Executive Branch Resources
on GPO Access
A menu of links to the various resources related to the
work of the executive branch that are available on GPO
Access. President
- White House
- Compilation
of Presidential Documents (FDsys, GPO)
From the web site
description: "The Compilation of Presidential Documents collection is
composed of the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents and its predecessor,
the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents . . . This collection
integrates material from the weekly publication dating from 1993, with Daily
Compilation material as published from January 20, 2009 – forward."
- Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents (GPO Access - 1993 to present).
- GPO Access -
Presidential Materials Page
- Presidential Signing
Statements (Law Library of Congress)
From the web site: "This guide is
intended to serve as an introduction to research on official pronouncements
issued by the President of the United States at or near the time a bill is
signed into law. Such pronouncements are called signing statements."
Includes links to additional web resources concerning presidential signing
statements.
- POTUS: Presidents of the United
States Information on current and past Presidents & First Ladies
(Internet Public Library Project).
- Presidential
Libraries (National Archives and Records Administration)
Information on
researching Presidential materials and links to Presidential libraries.
- Office of Management and Budget
(OMB)
"OMB assists the President in the development and execution of his
policies and programs. OMB has a hand in the development and resolution of all
budget, policy, legislative, regulatory, procurement, e-gov, and management
issues on behalf of the President."
Agencies
- Official Federal Government
Web Sites - Executive Branch (Library of Congress Internet Resource Page)
Also includes some independent agencies, boards, commissions, committees and
quasi-official agencies.
- Agency Index
(Federal) (Doc-Law Web, Washlaw - Washburn Univ. School of Law)
Covers
executive agencies and independent agencies and establishments. Includes a table
with links by agency name to: publications, organizational charts, forms,
opinions, maunuals, libraries and directories.
- Federal
Administrative Decisions & other Actions (Government Information
Resources University of Virginia Library)
Links to agency documents
outside the CFR & Federal Register. Includes
administrative decisions, announcements, manuals, administrative law judge
information, E-FOIA reading room material and more. Browsable by agency name or
by subject.
- Regulations.gov
Find, review
and submit comments on Federal government documents that are open for comment
and published in the Federal Register, e.g. proposed regulations. Search
by keyword or phrase or browse by agency name.
- Justia: Regulation Tracker
Similar to the Regulations.gov web site (above). Notable additional features
include: retrospective coverage back to 2005 and an RSS feed subscription.
- U.S. Department of Justice
Click on
the DOJ Agencies
link to locate the web page of a particular bureau, division, service or office
within the DOJ, e.g. FBI, Civil Rights Division, Office of Legal Counsel, Office
of the Attorney General.
Judicial Branch
Federal Judiciary Home Page
(Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts).
Federal Judicial Center Home Page
U.S. Courts - Links
(Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
Links to Federal court web sites,
arranged by circuit. Includes circuit, district and other federal courts.
Federal Courts Finder
(Emory Law Library)
Federal
Judicial Nominations (Lillian Goldman Library, Yale Law School)
History of the Federal
Judiciary (Federal Judicial Center)
Provides a "Federal Judges
Biographical Database" covering Federal judges since 1789, descriptions and
legislative history information of the various Federal courts, full text of
"Landmark Judicial Legislation", "Topics in Judicial History", a "Historic
Courthouse Photograph Exhibit" with over 600 images of federal courthouses,
essays on the creation and administration of the federal judiciary, including
various administrative bodies, a “Timeline for Landmark Judicial Legislation”,
and links to various Federal courts historical programs, such as the Historical
Society of the U.S. Courts in the 8th Circuit
PACER: Public Access to
Court Electronic Records PACER FAQ
Case and docket
information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts.
Supreme Court
- United States Supreme Court Home
Page (U.S. Supreme Court & the G.P.O.)
- Web Guide to
U.S. Supreme Court Research
A comprehensive and detailed research guide
to web resources. Contains annotated links to the "most reliable substantive
sites for U.S. Supreme Court research."
- Senate
Committee on the Judiciary: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings (1972-forward)
(pdf format, zip files)
- The
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Database (Northwestern University Law
School)
"This is a multi-user, public database containing a wealth of
information on individuals nominated (whether confirmed or not) to the U.S.
Supreme Court (John Jay-Samuel A. Alito, Jr). Specifically, the Database houses
263 variables, falling roughly into five categories: identifiers, background
characteristics and personal attributes, nomination and confirmation, service on
the Court, and departures from the bench." Excel, SPSS & STATA versions are
available.
- Supreme Court Historical
Society
- The Harry A. Blackmum Papers
at the Library of Congress
Supreme Court Opinions,
Records & Briefs
Circuit Court Web Sites &
Opinions
Federal District Courts
- U.S. Court of Appeals and
District Courts Interactive Map (Administrative Office of the
U.S. Courts)
This map displays the geographic boundaries of the Federal U.S.
Circuit and District courts. Clicking on a particular Circuit or District
will take users to a selection of links to the web sites and Pacer and
CM/ECF databases for the courts in that circuit/district.
Federal Courts in Minnesota
Legislative Branch
- THOMAS: Legislative
Information on the Internet Congressional and legislative information,
bills, laws (Library of Congress).
- GovTrack.us
"On this
site you'll find the status of legislation, the speeches of representatives on
the House and Senate floors, voting records, campaign contribution summaries,
and more, plus the opinions of other users through their blog entries. And you
can follow only the issues that interest you through email updates and RSS
feeds."
- LexisNexis
Congressional
Legislative information, bills, laws and other
publications available at workstations in libraries on the Univ. of Minnesota
Twin Cities campus.
- Federal Digital
System (FDsys) (U.S. Government Printing Office).
FDsys provides public
access to Government information submitted by Congress and the Federal agenices.
Information on the GPO Access is currently in the procces of migration to FDsys.
As of 4/24/09 Congressional publications on FDsys include: Bills
(103rd Cong. 1993 to present), House
& Senate Documents and Senate Treaty Documents (103d Cong., 1993 -
present), Congressional
Hearings (104th Cong. 1995 - present), the Congressional
Record (vol. 140, 1994 - current), Congressional
Reports (104th Cong., 1995 - current) and Public
and Private Laws (104th Cong., 1995 - current). Documents may also be
browsed by legislative
body, e.g. House and Senate committees (standing, select, special &
other) and by date. A search feature is also
available for locating documents.
- Legislative Branch
Resources on GPO Access (U.S. Government Printing Office).
A menu of
links to the various resources related to the work of the legislative branch
that are available on GPO Access.
- United States Senate Home Page
- LLSDC Legislative Source Book
(Compiled by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. - Legislative
Research SIS).
Contains a number of useful resources for researching federal
legislative and regulatory history.
- Center for
Legislative Archives (National Archives & Records Administration)
Includes information on accessing the records congress. Contains finding
aids for legislative records and links to online resources.
- A Century of
Lawmaking for a New Nation (Library of Congress - American Memory Project)
U.S. Congressional documents & debates from the Continental Congress,
Constitutional Convention, and the 1st-42nd Congresses: 1774-1873. The web site
also includes volumes 1-17 of the U.S. Statutes at Large, which contain
the laws of the 1st - 42nd Congresses (1789-1873).
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
The
CBO's mission is to "provide Congress with objective, timely nonpartisan
analyses needed for economic and budget decisions and with informamtion and
estimates required for the Congressional budget process.
- Government Accountability Office (GAO)
"The GAO is the audit, evaluation and investigative arm of Congress." Web
site includes GAO reports, testimony and Comptroller General Decisions and
Opinions.
- Congressional
Research Service Reports (Documents Center, Univ. of Michigan Library)
University of Michigan Library Documents Center's listing of sources for CRS
reports. Many of these same sources are available from the Law Library and
Government Publications Library on the U of M campus.
- Open CRS (Center for Democracy &
Technology)
One of the largest repositories of CRS reports. Open CRS's
collection was recently booosted by the acquisition of over 6,000 reports from
Wikileaks. CRS Reports provids a Google
search box for locating CRS reports. A typical search result includes the report
title, date and order number, along with a detailed summary and link(s) to the
full-text. In its "collections" section the web site provides links to the major
(largest) collections of CRS Reports on the web. The major collections are: National Council for Science and the
Environment, Thurgood Marshall Law
Library, Federatioon of
American Scientists, and the IP Mall at Franklin
Pierce Law Center.
- Congressional Research Service
Reports (Memory Hole)
A collection of over 300 CRS publications in
full-text (Short Reports, Long Reports, Issue Briefs and Appropriations
Reports), formerly available (access removed Oct. 2003) via Congressional web
sites. These copies are in .pdf format courtesy of the Memory Hole.
- Congressional
Research Service Reports (Thurgood Marshall Law Library, Univ. of Maryland
Law School)
An online collection of links to CRS reports available on the
web. Reports are browsable by subject, date, title and order code. The site also
includes links to other online collections of CRS reports.
- Federal Government
Resources - Legislative Branch
House, Senate & Joint Committee web
sites, Senate & House Directories and more. (Univ. of Michigan Documents
Center)
- Links to Congressional Information
from Official & Non-Official Sources (Library of Congress Internet
Resource Page)
- U.S.
Legislative Information Sources on the Internet
A very well organized
web site of links to Federal legislative information. (Bowling Green State)
Other Sites for Locating Federal Documents & Publications
Acronyms, Abbreviations & Glossaries
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